Bio

I am fueled by a passion for new developments in technology and how the application of these can deliver an awesome user experience while effectively meeting business needs.

Recently I have focused primarily on the WordPress platform, with core commits in 3.9, 4.0, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 47,4.8 and 4.9, augmenting my existing development skills in a range of environments and a variety of projects. This has included work on a number of themes, plugins and supporting various sites on WordPress VIP. I am also a component maintainer for WordPress (Date/Time).

Interests

Walking, Kayaking, Reading, Theater, PHP, Javascript, CSS

WordPress Origin Story

I discovered WordPress in 2006 when asked to explore the use of collaborative tools internally for a multinational corporation, setting up a 200+ multi-blog site using WPMU on IIS7. As part of this project, I created my first plugin, Author Avatars, (https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-avatars/ ), which now has 10,000+ active installs.

From this point on, the community, the flexibility and the velocity of WordPress has made it my platform of choice.

I specialize in creating highly performant scalable, accessible and SEO friendly code (plugins and themes) for large WordPress sites that are often multi-site, multi-language, VIP and/or e-commerce.

In 2018, with a partner, I launched a premium plugin for the recruitment industry, Matador Jobs (https://matadorjobs.com/) and in June Matador Jobs became an official Bullhorn partner (https://www.bullhorn.com/marketplace/matador-jobs/).

I continue to support my growing list of plugins (https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbearne/#content-plugins ) and the wider WordPress community, and speak regularly at WordCamps.

Posted a reply to Sort by Last Name ignores first name when multiple same last name, on the site WordPress.org Forums:I hadn't spotted that you are using a whitelist try recording the ids it overrides…

3 weeks ago

Posted a reply to Sort by Last Name ignores first name when multiple same last name, on the site WordPress.org Forums:I have made an update for you to try https://github.com/pbearne/wp-author-avatars/archive/master.zip I added an option to…

3 weeks ago

Posted a reply to Sort by Last Name ignores first name when multiple same last name, on the site WordPress.org Forums:I assume you tried [authoravatars whitelistusers=1,7,51,21,103 user_link=authorpage display=show_name,show_biography order="last_name,first_name" asc avatar_size=175] I will need to…

3 weeks ago

Posted a reply to redirection loop with WPML, on the site WordPress.org Forums:yes, that what I checked by looking at the general settings

2 months ago

Posted a reply to redirection loop with WPML, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Https is set we only have the problem when we change lang happy to demo…

2 months ago

Created a topic, redirection loop with WPML, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Hi All With WPML installed along with the LH HSTS whe…

Posted a reply to GDPR, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Hi Author Avatars doesn't store any user data all the data it uses is from…

7 months ago

Posted a reply to Group authors in alphabetical index, on the site WordPress.org Forums:try this https://github.com/pbearne/wp-author-avatars/releases/tag/1.15 I am sliting the name byh spaces and ouputing all the first…

9 months ago

Posted a reply to Post Count Styling, on the site WordPress.org Forums:no I don't maybe because I have made it an release try this link https://github.com/pbearne/wp-author-avatars/releases/tag/1.15…

9 months ago

Posted a reply to Post Count Styling, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Hi I have changed it to sprintf( apply_filters( 'aa_post_count', ' <span class="aa-post-count-wrap-start">(</span>%d<span class="aa-post-count-wrap-end">)</span>', $postcount, $user…

9 months ago

Posted a reply to Post Count Styling, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Hi You can change this via filter aa_post_count $name .= sprintf( apply_filters( 'aa_post_count', ' (%d)',…

9 months ago

Posted a reply to Group authors in alphabetical index, on the site WordPress.org Forums:OOPS!! I got the substr wrong!! please re-pull and re-test

9 months ago

Posted a reply to Group authors in alphabetical index, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Hi OK, I have pushed and patch to my Git repo can you test it…

9 months ago

Posted a reply to Empty spaces in the author list, on the site WordPress.org Forums:try adding this CSS to your theme .shortcode-author-avatars div.author-list .user { height: 160px; width: 110px;…

9 months ago

Posted a reply to Show nickname instead of username, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Pushed an update just for you!! Can't believe it wasn't already there. add nickname to…

9 months ago

Created a topic, New Codebase, on the site WordPress.org Forums:The "Bullhorn Staffing and Recruitment Job Listing and…

11 months ago

Posted a reply to Avatar size, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Hi Saniol The shortcode will take a size setting or you can use CSS to…

11 months ago

Created a new ticket, #42870, in Core Trac:unit test for is_serialized_string()

11 months ago

Wrote a comment on the post WordPress PHP now (mostly) conforms to WordPress Coding Standards, on the site Make WordPress Core:Good news

12 months ago

Posted a reply to Showing BP XProfile Fields via Shortcode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Just push an update with this fix

12 months ago

Posted a reply to Showing BP XProfile Fields via Shortcode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Have a look at this post https://authoravatars.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/support-for-buddypress-xprofiles/ I will look at exploding array and object…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Add extra fields to the sidebar?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:you can use filters to add the additional info to the shortcode see this post…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to How can I list only one author at a time using the shortcode?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:You can use the [show_avatar id=1] https://authoravatars.wordpress.com/documentation/show_avatar-shortcode/ or you can use filters to add the…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to New and Pro Version coming!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:hi Incyte Happy to have you join Reach out to me at paul@bearne.ca and I…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Post_Count Desc order, on the site WordPress.org Forums:is this still a problem?

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Strange link URL, on the site WordPress.org Forums:is this still a problem?

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Getting a list of authors by ID, on the site WordPress.org Forums:try this the whitelistusers will make it so that you only show from this group…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Showing BP XProfile Fields via Shortcode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Thanks it is always good to testing on other sites I will push to wp.org…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Showing BP XProfile Fields via Shortcode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Hi Guys You found a bug the JS for the popup got broken by an…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Showing BP XProfile Fields via Shortcode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:I will look

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Sync not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Hi Karen Are you still having problems? We are just release a new version that…